Specialist Community Dietitian

We are excited to recruit a community specialist dietitian. Are you ready for a new challenge and wanting to develop your existing specialist clinical skills?
We believe that as Dietitians, Nutrition Nurses and Support staff:
+ We enable recovery
+ We empower quality of life
+ We bring independence and dignity to our patients
Are you passionate about optimising the quality of life of others, enabling recovery following serious illness and driven to promote the independence and dignity of your patients? Then you may be interested in learning more about our team and working with us in Nutrition and Dietetics.
This post offers an opportunity for a Dietitian to take the next step in their career and really make a difference to patients requiring dietetic intervention in the community setting.
We are looking for an innovative individual who is driven to support the clinical delivery of adult pathways for our diverse population as we seek to be the leaders of integrated care. Candidates will be joining a service at a time of considerable opportunity. You will need to use highly developed interpersonal skills to establish and foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders across the multidisciplinary team to support and enhance the care of the patient in the community., The postholder will hold a caseload of nutritional support and home enterally tube fed patients; working with patients to develop individually tailored plans to meet their nutritional needs. Additionally holding a weekly outpatient clinic working with patients requiring complex nutrition support or with gastroenterology diagnoses. This is a rewarding prospect working with a caseload of people in their own homes, outpatient centres and care homes within our integrated multidisciplinary towns team across Sandwell and West Birmingham.
You would be joining our ambitious and forward-thinking therapies structure in a trust that seeks to be the leaders of integrated care and our trust strongly recognisies nutrition and hydration as a key fundamental of care for our people, patients and population.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality., The Nutrition and Dietetics Department is a growing team of 40; based across Sandwell and West Birmingham. We have regular departmental meetings, clinical supervision sessions and education meetings. Continuing professional development is promoted and supported.
The Department trains student dietitians from Coventry and Birmingham City Universities across the full range of placements.
There is excellent administrative support, IT facilities and access to modern Trust library facilities.
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

NHS AfC: Band 6
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As "People" is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department., Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live